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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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Everybody's friend is nobody's.

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

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Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

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A hedge between keeps friendship green.

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universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

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Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

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The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

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