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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

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Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

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I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

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