He who defends everything defends nothing.

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What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

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I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

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If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

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