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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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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 the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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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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