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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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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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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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God created woman to tame man.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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