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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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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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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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There can be no happiness without good health

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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

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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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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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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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