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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
With great power comes great responsibility.