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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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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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