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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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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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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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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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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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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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

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