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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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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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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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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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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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