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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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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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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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