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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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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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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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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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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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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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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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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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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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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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