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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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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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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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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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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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