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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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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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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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