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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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

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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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

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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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