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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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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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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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