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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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