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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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