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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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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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We only half live when we only half think.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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What can we say with certainty?

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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