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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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

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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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History should be written as philosophy.

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