"Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no."

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“Politeness is for people toward whom we feel indifferent, and moods, both good and bad, are for those we love.”

“Any kind of barbarism, once established, will last.”

“If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true.”

“Happiness is a reward that comes to those that have not looked for it.”

“Idleness is the mother of all vices, but also of all virtues.”

“It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.”

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