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A witty saying proves nothing.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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