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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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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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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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