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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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