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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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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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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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