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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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My life is a struggle.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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

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