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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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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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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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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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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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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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God created woman to tame man.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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