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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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