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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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