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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.