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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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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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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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