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

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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