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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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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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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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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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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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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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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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