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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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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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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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My life is a struggle.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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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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