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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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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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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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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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