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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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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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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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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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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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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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