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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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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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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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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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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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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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