It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Common sense is not so common.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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