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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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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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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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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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Men argue. Nature acts.

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

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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