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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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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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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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