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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

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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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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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