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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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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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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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God created women only to tame men.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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