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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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