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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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

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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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