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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. - Voltaire ,

Injustice in the end produces independence.

It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.