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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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