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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."

Michel de Montaigne
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“The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave.”

“All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end.”

“Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.”

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.”

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"To Hosea, marriage is the image of the relationship of God and Israel. ... Idolatry is adultery."

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"Magic consists of, and is acquired by the worship of the gods."

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"To everyone God is the kind of God he believes in."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."

— Ernest Bramah
Literature1868–1942
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