Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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