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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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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 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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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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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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