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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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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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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
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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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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Nature has always had more force than education.
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We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly - that is the first law of nature.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Business is the salt of life.
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God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.