"He who seeks truth should be of no country."
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"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."
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"We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."
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"The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists."
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"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."
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"To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart."
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"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends."
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"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls."
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
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"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."
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"Writing is the painting of the voice."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask."
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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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"Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism."
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
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"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks."
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
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"Clever tyrants are never punished."
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