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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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