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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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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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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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God created woman to tame man.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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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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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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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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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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