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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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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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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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