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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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Paradise is where I am

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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