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Change everything except your loves.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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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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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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