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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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