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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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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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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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