"Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity."
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"Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!"
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"A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less."
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"All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws"
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"Work is often the father of pleasure."
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"All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
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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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"When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward."
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"The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter."
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"The superfluous is the most necessary."
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"I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little"
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"One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly."
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"Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet."
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"There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind"
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"Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life."
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"If God did not exist, he would have to be invented."
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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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"Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France."
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"Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom."
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"All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon"
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