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Men argue. Nature acts.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Paradise is where I am

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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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 husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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