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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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