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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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My life is a struggle.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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