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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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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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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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