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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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Every harlot was a virgin once.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

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What is now proved was once only imagined.

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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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