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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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