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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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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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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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What can we say with certainty?

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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