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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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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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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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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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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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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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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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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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

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