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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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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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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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God created woman to tame man.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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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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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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