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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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