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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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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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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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