Which is the most beastly, the pig itself, or the man who rears, kills
and eats it?
Behold yourself through the eyes of others and judge your worth
accordingly.
When man dies he leaves his works for the approbation or contempt of
posterity.
As the mother loves her child, so should all living things love each
other.
The sins of the parents are visited upon the children as a natural
result, and not by an act of the Almighty.
There are thoughts in existence today which man will not be able to
grasp for thousands of years to come.
Replace the Church with schools of moral, mental and physical culture
and the world will pro& thereby.
As the swindler first creates a feeling of faith in his intended victim,
so religion demands faith in its followers.
Of what good are you if you gain the produce of the whole world and
breed ten thousand criminal descendants.
There are many men in this world who call it work to figure how they can
secure the results of others' labor.
If you have knowledge, offer it to others; if they do not accept it,
that is their loss.
Do not fill your head so full of other people's ideas that there is no
room left for your own.
Point out the defects of him who is present; praise the good qualities
of him who is absent.
Those who ride upon the backs of others must in turn carry others upon
their own backs.
The Bible not only proves its own absurdities, but any others that the
human mind can conceive.
Parents should mould their children's character before they are born, by
their own thoughts and actions.
Your ancestors are responsible for the weaknesses you inherit, but you
are responsible for non-improvement.
Marrying for money or position without mutual love is but one way to
breed and preserve the germs of prostitution.
It is not only the selfishness of the strong that robs the weak, but
also the selfishness of the weak that keeps them so.
If nature has blessed you with superior ability and you do not use it to
benefit mankind, then you have betrayed nature's trust.
The laborer furnishes the capitalist with money, houses, clothes,
eatables, service and then the weapons and power to keep him enslaved.
If you have not improved your condition physically, mentally and morally
over that of your parents, your life has been a failure.
Religion is a great cudgel held threateningly by the strong over the
heads of the weak to keep them in a state of ignorance and slavery.
If the soul were born with the body, then it must die with it; but if
the soul live afterward, then it must have lived before the body was
born.
The learned man is sometimes wise; the wise man is not always learned.
The wise man produces good thoughts direct from nature; the learned man
acquires them afterward.
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