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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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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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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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

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