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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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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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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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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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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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