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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
— Zengzi
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He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
— Ben Jonson
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A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead…
— Gautama Buddha
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
— Gautama Buddha
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…
— H. L. Mencken
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
— Confucius
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Every virtuous man is free.
— Philo
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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its…
— Sakya Pandita
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
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