"There are no sects in geometry."
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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
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"It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time."
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"You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you."
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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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"Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth."
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"Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked."
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"Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation."
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"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."
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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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"A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good."
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"The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins."
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"I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition."
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"Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul."
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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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"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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"Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application."
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"The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person."
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"Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened."
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"Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding."
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