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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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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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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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