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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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