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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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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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