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  1. Avec toute l'algebre du monde on n'est souvent qu'un sot lorsqu'on ne sait pas autre chose. Peut-etre dans dix ans la societe tirera-t-elle…
  2. Do you think I take any pleasure in this dog's life, in seeing and causing death in people unknown to me, in losing friends and acquaintanc…
  3. Alle Religionen sind gleich und gut, wenn nur die Leute, die sie praktizeren, ehrliche Leute sind; und wenn Turken und Heiden kamen und wol…
  4. Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. - This is how Chris…
  5. A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.
  6. As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies …
  7. I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity …
  8. Je voulus faire un jet d'eau dans mon jardin; Euler calcula l'effort des roues pour faire monter l'eau dans un bassin, d'ou elle devait ret…

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