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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
[Faith]

Fear could never make a virtue.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
[Crime]

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
[England]

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
[God]

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
[Prayer]

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.


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