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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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