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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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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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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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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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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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