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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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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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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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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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