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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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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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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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