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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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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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