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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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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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What is not in nature can never be true.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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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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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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