-All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
-Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
-Common sense is not so common.
-He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
-I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
-If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
-If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Men... must have corrupted nature a little, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounder cannons or bayonets, and they have made bayonets and cannons to destroy each other.
-It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.
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