"To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted."
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"If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
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"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."
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"My life is a struggle."
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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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"He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool."
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"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
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"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
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"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous."
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"The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe."
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"Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it."
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"War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice."
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"In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense."
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"Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing"
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"Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd."
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"All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles."
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"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."
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"Tears are the silent language of grief."
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"Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal."
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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."
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