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| A witty saying proves nothing. |
Кто остроумно говорит, тот ничего не доказывает. |
| All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. |
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| Anything too stupid to be said is sung. |
Всё слишком глупое, чтобы сказать, поётся в песнях. |
| Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. |
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| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. |
Сомнение - не приятное состояние, но уверенность - это абсурд. |
| Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. |
Каждый человек становится виновным во всех вещах, что он не делал. |
| God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. |
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| God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
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| God is always on the side of the big battalions. |
Бог играет комические роли, но аудитория слишком напугана, чтобы смеяться. |
| History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. |
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| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. |
Я не согласен с Вашим мнением, но готов жизнь отдать за то, чтобы Вы смогли его высказать. |
| I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. |
Я никогда не молился, но однажды попросил бога, очень коротко: "О Господи, сделай моих врагов смешными". И Бог ниспослал это. |
| If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. |
Если Бог не существует, было бы необходимостью изобрести его. |
| Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. |
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| Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter. |
Праздность сладкая, но её последствия горькие. |
| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. |
Опасно быть правым, когда правительство неправо. |
| It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. |
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| Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |
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| Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. |
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| Love truth, and pardon error. |
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| Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. |
Брак - это приключение для трусливых. |
| Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. |
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| Monsieur l'abbй, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. |
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| Prejudice is opinion without judgement. |
Предубеждение - это мнение без судебного решения. |
| Regimen is superior to medicine. |
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| The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. |
Искусство медицины состоит в забавах пациента, в то время как природа лечит болезнь. |
| The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. |
Человек, который оставляет деньги на благотворительность в своем завещании, только отдает то, что больше не принадлежит ему. |
| The multitude of books is making us ignorant. |
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| The secret of being boring is to say everything. |
Секрет быть скучным есть у всех. |
| There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. |
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| There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. |
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| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. |
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| This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. |
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| Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. |
Те, кто может заставить вас поверить нелепости, может заставить вас совершать зверства. |
| To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. |
Чтобы добиться успеха в мире, не достаточно быть глупым, вы также должны быть хорошо воспитанным. |
| Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. |
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| When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. |
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| Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. |
Работа избавляет нас от трех великих зол: скуки, порока и нужды. |
| You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. |
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