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

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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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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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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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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