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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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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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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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