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

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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