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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Common sense is not so common.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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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 write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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