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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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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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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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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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