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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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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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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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

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What can we say with certainty?

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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