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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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