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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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