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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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