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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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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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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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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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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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