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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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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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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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

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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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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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

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