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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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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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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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