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

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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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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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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