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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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