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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Change everything except your loves.

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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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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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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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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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