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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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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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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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