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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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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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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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