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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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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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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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