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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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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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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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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 was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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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 amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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