"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."
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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
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"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
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"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."
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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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"One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact."
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"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed."
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"To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!"
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"There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see."
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"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
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"Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep."
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"Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion"
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"Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are."
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"Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities."
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"To the wicked, everything serves as pretext."
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"I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?"
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"The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability."
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"So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer."
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"The more you know, the less sure you are."
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"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul."
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