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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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