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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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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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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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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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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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