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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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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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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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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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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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