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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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

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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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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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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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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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