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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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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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