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Birthdate January 25, 1967

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Location Paris, France

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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The comfort of the rich rests upon an abundance of the poor.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Haven't been able to find the place where this quote was taken, and have heard at times that he may not have coined it. However it's great nonetheless.

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It's better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do...

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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