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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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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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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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