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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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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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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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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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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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

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

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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