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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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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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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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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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What can I hope when all is right?

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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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