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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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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 superfluous is very necessary.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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