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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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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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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Change everything except your loves.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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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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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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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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