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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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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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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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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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