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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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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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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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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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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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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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We must cultivate our own garden.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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