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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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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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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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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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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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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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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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