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• Alle genrer er tilladt, blot ikke den kedelige.
• Alle mennesker elsker friheden og synes at stræbe efter at knuse den.
• Den mand er hÃ¥rd, som kun er retfærdig, og den mand er alvorlig, som kun er klog.
• Den store trøst her i livet er at sige, hvad man tænker.
• Den, som testamenterer sine penge til velgørenhed, giver bare det væk, som ikke længere tilhører ham.
• Det skønne bør være sjældent, ellers ville det ophøre at være skønt
• Døm en mand pÃ¥ hans spørgsmÃ¥l, frem for pÃ¥ hans svar.
• Er politik andet end kunsten at lyve i rette tid?
• Fordom er tÃ¥bernes argument.
• God er en komiker, som spiller for et publikum, der er for bange for at le.
• Han mÃ¥ være meget uvidende, thi han svarer pÃ¥ alle spørgsmÃ¥l, han stiller.
• Hvert menneske er skyldig i alt det gode, det ikke gjorde.
• Hvis Gud ikke eksisterede, ville det være nødvendigt at opfinde ham, men hele naturen rÃ¥ber til os, at han eksisterer.
• Hvor jeg er, er paradis pÃ¥ jord.
• HÃ¥rdt arbejde bortjager de tre store onder, kedsomhed, last og fattigdom.
• Intet er efter min mening mere latterligt end at blive besejret af latterlige fjender
• Intet er sÃ¥ ubehageligt som at blive hængt i stilhed
• Jeg rÃ¥der dig til at fortsætte md at leve udelukkende for at irritere dem, som betaler din pension. Det er den eneste glæde, jeg har tilbage.
• Jeg ved intet latterligere end en læge, som ikke dør af alderdom.
• Jeg vil bekæmpe dine meninger, men jeg vil dø for din ret til at have dem
• Kvinder ligner vejrhaner; de stopper først op, nÃ¥r de ruster.
• Kærligheden er den stærkeste af alle lidenskaberne, fordi den pÃ¥ samme tid angriber hovedet, hjertet og sanserne.
• Lægekunst er at holde patienten beskæftiget, mens naturen kurerer sygdommen.
• Læger er folk der giver medikamenter, som de ved lidt om, til at helbrede sygdomme, de ved mindre om, til mennesker, som de intet ved om.
• Man mÃ¥ begynde med at kende tingene for at lære at dømme om dem.
• Menneskene vil altid være afsindige, og de, som tror, de kan helbrede dem, er de vanvittigste af alle
• Midt i alle mine lidenskaber har jeg altid næret afsky for utaknemmelighed. Hvis jeg stod i taknemmelighedsgæld til fanden, ville jeg tale pænt om hans horn.
• Mænds svagheder fostrer kvindernes styrke.
• NÃ¥r lægerne ikke kan helbrede en sygdom, giver de den i hvert fald et smukt navn
• Patriotisme? En blanding af egenkærlighed og fordomme
• Selvbedrag er den største af alle glæder.
• Statistik kan ikke erstatte dømmekraft.
• Under troens maske forfølges fornuften ofte, og den kloge har alle tider uret, nÃ¥r han taler med dosmere.
• Universet forvirrer mig, og jeg kan ikke tænke mig, at dette ur eksisterer uden en urmager.
• Uretfærdighed fremkalder til sidst uafhængighed.
• Venskab er en stiltiende overenskomst mellem to fornuftige og retskafne personer
• Vi lever aldrig, men er altid fyldt med forventninger til livet
• Ægteskab er det eneste eventyr, som ligger Ã¥bent for kujonen.

Engelske citater:

• A long dispute means both parties are wrong
• A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
• A witty saying proves nothing.
• Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
• Anything too stupid to be said is sung
• Ask a toad what is beauty?. . . a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
• By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property
• Canada: a few acres of snow
• Christianity must be divine, since it lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense
• Common sense is not so common
• Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one
• Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself
• Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do
• Every style that is not boring is a good one
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh
• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
• I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it
• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it
• Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
• If God made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment
• 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 as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music
• Let us work without theorizing - it is the only way to make life endurable
• Love truth, but pardon error
• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively
• Man is free at the moment he wishes to be
• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly
• Minds differ still more than faces
• Nature has always had more power than education
• One great use of words is to hide our thoughts
• 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.
• Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother
• Superstition sets the whole world in flames, philosophy extinguishes them.
• The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
• The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it up or flee from it.
• The secret of being a bore . . . is to tell everything.
• The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream
• That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
• There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
• To belive in God is impossible - not to believe in him is absurd.
• To hold a pen is to be at war.
• To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered
• We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
• What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
• Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors
• Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty.