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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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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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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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