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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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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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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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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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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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