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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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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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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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