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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Change everything except your loves.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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