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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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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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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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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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