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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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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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There can be no happiness without good health

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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