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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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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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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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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 darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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