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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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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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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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