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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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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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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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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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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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