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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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