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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. "

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

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

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" In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. "

" 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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" People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. "