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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
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“Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.”
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“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?”
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“The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.”
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“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
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“Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”
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“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...”
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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.”
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“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.”
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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
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“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”
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“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”
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“it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.”
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“This je ne sais quoi, so small an object that we cannot recognise it, agitates a whole country, princes, armies, the entire world. Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”
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“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.”
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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
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“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms; good is almost unique.”
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“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”
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“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
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“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.”
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“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”
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“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.”
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“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”
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“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
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“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
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“The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
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“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
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“Nothing gives certainty but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
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“The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”
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“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”
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“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.”
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“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.”
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“if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”
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“lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity”
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“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.”
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“Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”
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“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
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“Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.”
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“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognises that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger. ”
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“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
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“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.”
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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
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“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”
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“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”
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“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come...”
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“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”
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“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?”
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