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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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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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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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