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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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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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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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