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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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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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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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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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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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