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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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

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