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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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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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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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