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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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