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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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God created woman to tame man.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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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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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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What can we say with certainty?

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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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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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