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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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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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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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