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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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