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

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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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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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