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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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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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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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Only your friends steal your books.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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