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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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