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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Paradise is where I am

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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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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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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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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