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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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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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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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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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