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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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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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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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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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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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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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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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