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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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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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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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

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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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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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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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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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