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

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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Paradise is where I am

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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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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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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