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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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My life is a struggle.

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

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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