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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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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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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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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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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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