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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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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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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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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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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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