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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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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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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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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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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done 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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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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