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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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