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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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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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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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