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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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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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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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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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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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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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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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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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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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