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"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

"Christians are the hope of any country."

"Any bridge you refuse to burn gives Satan an invitation and re-entry point into your life."

"Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature."
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"The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence."

"Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God."

"The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight."

"Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed."

"Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction."

"The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can."

"Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it."

"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."
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