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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
Denis Diderot
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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Voltaire
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
Denis Diderot
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Voltaire
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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
Madame de Stael
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
Madame de Stael
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Everything can be borne except contempt.
Voltaire
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Voltaire
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.
James Rollins
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
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Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
Voltaire
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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
Voltaire
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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
Voltaire
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
Peter Jennings
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
Denis Diderot
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
Voltaire
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
Rene Descartes
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