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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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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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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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