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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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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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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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