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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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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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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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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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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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