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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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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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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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