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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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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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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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