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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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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 the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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