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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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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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