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

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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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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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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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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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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