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Encyclopdistes Inspirational Quotes (1045)

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
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We never live we are always in the expectation of living.
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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
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God created woman to tame man.
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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Man is free the moment he wants to be.
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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
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The way to become boring is to say everything.
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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Mortals are equal their mask differs.
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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
Voltaire
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