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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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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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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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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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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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