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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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