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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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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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We only half live when we only half think.

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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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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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