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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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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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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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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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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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