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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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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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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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