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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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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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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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