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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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