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It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

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Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together f...

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense po...

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S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

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The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose c...

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood fa...

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Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would ...