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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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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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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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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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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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