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"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"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."

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

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

"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."

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

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