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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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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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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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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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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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