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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.


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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.



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