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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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

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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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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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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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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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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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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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My life is a struggle.

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

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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