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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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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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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Change everything except your loves.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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