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The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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