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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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