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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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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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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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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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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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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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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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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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