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

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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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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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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My life is a struggle.

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

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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