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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Common sense is not so common.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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God created women only to tame men.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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