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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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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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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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