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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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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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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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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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