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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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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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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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