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

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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

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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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