If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREIt 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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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