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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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