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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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