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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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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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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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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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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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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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