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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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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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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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