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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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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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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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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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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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