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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know.
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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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God created sex. Priests created marriage.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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Common sense is not so common.
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As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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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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Canada: A few acres of snow.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
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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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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which mine was made.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
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