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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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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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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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