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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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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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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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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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God created woman to tame man.

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