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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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

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

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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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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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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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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