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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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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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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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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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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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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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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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