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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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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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