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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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