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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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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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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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