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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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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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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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