Injustice in the end produces independence.
From Voltaire
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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