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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

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Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.

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If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

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There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

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