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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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