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

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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