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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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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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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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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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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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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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