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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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