"Only your friends steal your books."
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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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"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."
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"Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back."
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"What can we say with certainty?"
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"Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself."
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"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
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"Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics."
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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
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"To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave."
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"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."
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"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
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"He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery."
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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
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"God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked."
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"Historians are gossips who tease the dead"
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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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"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."
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"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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