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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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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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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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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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