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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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