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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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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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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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