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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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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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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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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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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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