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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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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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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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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 public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Common sense is not so common.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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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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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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