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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?

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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Beauty Belong Extraordinary Imagination Ordinary Question Simply Ugliness
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
Can we become other than what we are?
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Allow Ask Become Desire Other
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Allow Already Delicate Different Flower Lover Nevertheless Pluck Rose Sometimes
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Change Dammed Either Ever Kill Take

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