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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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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 sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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