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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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