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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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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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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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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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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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

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