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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
