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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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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 good action is preferable to an argument.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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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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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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