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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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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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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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