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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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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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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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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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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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My life is a struggle.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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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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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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