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This is no time to make new enemies.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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