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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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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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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Common sense is not so common.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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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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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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