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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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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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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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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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