A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.