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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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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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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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