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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. "

Voltaire

Thinking

Power

Feeling

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Nature

Law

" Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. "

" Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. "

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" Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. "

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Wishes

Freedom

" What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. "

" Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. "

" Prejudices are what fools use for reason. "

" If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. "

" It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. "

" The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. "

" This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. "

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Instrument

Pleasure

" I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. "

" To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. "

" Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. "

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

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Gift

God

" Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. "

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Earth

Little

" Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "

" It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. "

" To hold a pen is to be at war. "

" We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. "

" Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. "

" Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. "

" Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "

" The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. "

" Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. "

" Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. "