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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. "

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

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

" 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. "

" From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. "

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

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

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. "

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

" The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. "

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

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