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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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

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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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