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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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There can be no happiness without good health

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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