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Encyclopdistes Inspirational Quotes (1045)

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Change everything except your loves.
Voltaire
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The road to the heart is the ear
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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Who are you, Nature? I live in you for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
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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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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.
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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer
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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
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We only half live when we only half think.
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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
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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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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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Opinion is called the queen of the world it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.
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