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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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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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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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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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