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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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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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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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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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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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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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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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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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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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