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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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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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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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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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