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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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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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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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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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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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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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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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