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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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