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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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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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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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