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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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