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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - [Nation] Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. - [Sentimentality] It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. - [Wisdom] Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. - [Patriotism] Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man. - [Public Opinion] The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. - [Churches] The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours. - [Soul] The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. - [Eating] To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. - [Religion] We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. - [Adaptation]
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