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All is but illusion and disaster.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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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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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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

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