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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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God created women only to tame men.

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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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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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

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