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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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