"Woman is at once apple and serpent."

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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

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"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."

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"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

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"Atheism is the last word of theism."

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"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."

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"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

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