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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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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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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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