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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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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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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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