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  1. The priest will stay. If he does not want to get up with the others on Judgement Day, he may well keep resting on his back.
  2. The monarch is a perpetual sentinel, who must watch... enemies of the state... it is not that he should remain the shadow of authority, but…
  3. The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
  4. That the arrested man has committed blasphemy is a proof that he does not know God. That he has slandered me, I pardon him. But for his ins…
  5. Religions must all be tolerated and the state has to keep an eye that none of them shall derogate the other, because here everyone must fin…
  6. I am the first servant of my state.
  7. Diplomacy without power is like an orchestra without instruments.
  8. Before I endorse this sentence, I am curious to hear of the measures you want to employ for making a simple soldier pay 2000 Taler.

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