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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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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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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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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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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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

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

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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