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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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