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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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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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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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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 called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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