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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence."
"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
"We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention."
"Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one."
"Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us."
"But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?"
"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."
"He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles."
"Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against."
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