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What is not in nature can never be true.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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