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

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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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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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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Paradise is where I am

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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