Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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