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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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