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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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