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What can I hope when all is right?

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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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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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

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History is fables agreed upon.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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