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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Paradise is where I am

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We only half live when we only half think.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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