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Love truth, and pardon error.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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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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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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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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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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