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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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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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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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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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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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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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History is the study of the world's crime

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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