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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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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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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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