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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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

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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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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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