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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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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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God created women only to tame men.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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

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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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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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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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