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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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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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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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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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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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