"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest."
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"Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice."
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"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics."
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"Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling"
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"Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God."
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"Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders."
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"Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most"
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"Happiness is not the portion of man."
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"Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one."
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"had no need of a guide to learn ignorance"
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"If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him."
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"Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion."
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"If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire"
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"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions"
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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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"Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees."
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"Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote."
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"What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one."
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"Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?"
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