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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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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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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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