"For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm."
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"A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate."
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"We cannot wish for that we know not."
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"my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame"
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"He is lifeless that is faultless."
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"The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion."
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"Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels."
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"We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence"
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"Fools admire everything in an author of reputation."
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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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"Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer."
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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 spirit of property doubles a man's strength."
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"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
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"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
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"The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity."
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"The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself."
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"The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil."
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