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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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