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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Paradise is where I am

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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