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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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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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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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