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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Common sense is not so common.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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

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