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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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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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

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

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Change everything except your loves.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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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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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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