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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

The most important political office is that of the private citizen

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders

The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.