I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.


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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in i...
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in...
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they...
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well
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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not ex...
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; fr...
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ...
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
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Cities are the abyss of the human species
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
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Truth is no road to fortune
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The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
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As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
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God made me and broke the mold.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
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