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Encyclopdistes Inspirational Quotes (1045)

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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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But for what purpose was the earth formed? asked Candide. To drive us mad, replied Martin.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
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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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All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply it is for your work alone to make answer.
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This is no time to make new enemies.
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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire
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