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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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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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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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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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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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