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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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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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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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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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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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