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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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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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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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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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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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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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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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