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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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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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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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