We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
From Voltaire
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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