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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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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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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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