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Fear could never make virtue.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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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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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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