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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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Common sense is not so common.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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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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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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