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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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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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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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