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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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