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" All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. "

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" There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father. "

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" The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. "

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" There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. "

" If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. "

" Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. "

" Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. "

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" One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. "

" The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. "

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" Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. "

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" Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. "

" Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. "

" To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! "

" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

" Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. "

" Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. "

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. "

" There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. "

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" The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. "