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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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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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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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