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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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

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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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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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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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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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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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