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A witty quote proves nothing.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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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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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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

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