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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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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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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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God created woman to tame man.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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