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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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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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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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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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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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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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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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