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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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

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

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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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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