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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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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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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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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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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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