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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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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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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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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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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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