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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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

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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 there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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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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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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