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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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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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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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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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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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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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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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