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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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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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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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