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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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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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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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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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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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