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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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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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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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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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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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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 loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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