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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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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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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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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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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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