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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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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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Dare to think for yourself.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Change everything except your loves.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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