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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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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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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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