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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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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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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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