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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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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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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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