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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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There can be no happiness without good health
Voltaire
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
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We are all guilty of the good we did not do
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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
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Happiness is not the portion of man.
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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
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Many are destined to reason wrongly others, not to reason at all and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
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The son of God is the same as the son of man the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.
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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
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