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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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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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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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What can we say with certainty?

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