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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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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 wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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Paradise is where I am

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