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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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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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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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