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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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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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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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