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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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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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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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What can I hope when all is right?

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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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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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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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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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