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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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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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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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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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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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

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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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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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