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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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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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Paradise is where I am

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