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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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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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