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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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