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" The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. "

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" 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! "

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

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

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

" It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. "

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

" When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. "

" Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. "

" Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. "

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

" From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. "

" Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

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

" The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. "

" You have to make it happen. "

" Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. "

" His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. "

" Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. "

" We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. "

" 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. "

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

" The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. "

" 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. "

" The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. "

" There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. "

" We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. "

" No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. "

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

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