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Voltaire
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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p. 122
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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p. 115
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One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.
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p. 113
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: a very stupid daughter of a very wise mother.
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p. 111
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Moderation is the pleasure of the wise.
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p. 110
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Satire lies about men of letters during their life, and eulogy after their death.
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p. 105
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.
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p. 100
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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent one.
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p. 96
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Superstition excites storms; philosophy appeases them.
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p. 93
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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head> the heart, and the senses.
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p. 92
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