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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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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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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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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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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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