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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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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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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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