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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."

"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."

"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."

"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society."

"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."
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