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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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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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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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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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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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

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

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