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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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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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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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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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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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