"It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs."
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"Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations."
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"A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good."
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"The happier the moment the shorter."
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"The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another."
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"Man naturally yearns for novelty."
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"Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at."
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"Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions."
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"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."
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"All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat."
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"The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep."
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