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Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.

— Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.

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If one only saw the people one respected one would see nobody.

Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.

No gall has ever poisoned my pen.

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