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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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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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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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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 is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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