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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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What can we say with certainty?

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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