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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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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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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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History is the study of the world's crime

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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