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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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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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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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