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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known wor...more

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public sh...more

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I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything; this state of affairs fills my...more

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The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invinci...more

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.