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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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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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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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