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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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