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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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