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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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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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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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

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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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