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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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