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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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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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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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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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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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