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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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