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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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

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