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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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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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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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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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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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