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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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