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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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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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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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