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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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