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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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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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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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God created woman to tame man.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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