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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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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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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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