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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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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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