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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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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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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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

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