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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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Common sense is not so common.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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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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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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