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

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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