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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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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 comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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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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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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God created woman to tame man.

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