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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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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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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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