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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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What can we say with certainty?

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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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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