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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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