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The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

Thus began priesthood, choosing forms of worship from poetic tables. And at length, they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

And particularly, they studied the genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity, until a system was formed which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaf to lay his eggs on, so the priest lays bis curse on the fairest joys.

You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

Excess of sadness laughs.
Excess of joy weeps.

The pride of the peacock is the Glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the Bounty of God.
The wrath of the Lion is the Wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.