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A cat doesn't caress us, it caresses itself on us.

— Antoine de Rivarol

Le chat ne nous caresse pas, il se caresse à nous.

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The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or a Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marcus Aurelius.

God is the highest measure of our incapacity; the universe, space itself, are not so inaccessible.

Of Man, His Intellectual Faculties, and His Main Ideas (1797)

The being that only feels does not yet think, and the being that thinks feels always.

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The man who speaks is the man who thinks out loud.

De l'universalité de la langue française (1784)

It is prose which gives sway to a language, because it is quite usual; poetry is only a luxury object.

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