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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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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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