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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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