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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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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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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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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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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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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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