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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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

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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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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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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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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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

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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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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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