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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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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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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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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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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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