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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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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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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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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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