Trivia and Quotes
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 What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Common sense is not so common.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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A long dispute means both parties are wrong
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time
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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
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Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively
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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
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Only your friends steal your books
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Prejudice is the reason of fools
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well
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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
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Illusion is the first of the pleasures
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy
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Tears are the silent language of grief
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy
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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.
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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
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Common sense is not so common.
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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men
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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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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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...the safest course is to do nothing against one`s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: `O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.` And God granted it.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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God is always on the side of the big battalions.
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Regimen is superior to medicine.
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn`t do.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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