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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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

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

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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