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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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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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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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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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