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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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