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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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