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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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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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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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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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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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