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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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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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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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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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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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God created woman to tame man.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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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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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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