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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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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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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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