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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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