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

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

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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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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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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