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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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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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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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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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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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