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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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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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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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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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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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