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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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