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

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" 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. "

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

" There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. "

" We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. "

" If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. "

" It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. "

" 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. "

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

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

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