To find out who rules over you,simply find out
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make
The discover of what is true,and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames;
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade
Doubt is not a pleasant condition,but certainty is absurd.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
To the living we owe respect,but to the dead we owe only the truth.
I die adoring God, loving my friends,
who you are not allowed to criticize.
to the death your right to say it.
you commit atrocities.
The man who says to me 'believe as I do or God will damn you
will presently say believe as I do or I will murder you.
philosophy quenches them.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy;
the mad daughter of a wise mother.
before you instruct.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
or earthquakes
on this little globe of ours.
Men will always be mad, and those who think they
can cure them are the maddest of all.
not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
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