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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Common sense is not so common.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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