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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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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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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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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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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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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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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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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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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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