Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well
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Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
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History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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A witty saying proves nothing
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Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
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