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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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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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Change everything except your loves.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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