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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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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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Minds differ still more than faces.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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