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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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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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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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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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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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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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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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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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