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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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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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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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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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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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