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

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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