"The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister."
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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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"It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?"
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"Happiness is a good that nature sells us."
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"And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea."
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"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."
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"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics."
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"Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned."
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"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."
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"Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you."
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"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"Change everything except your loves."
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"Now is not the time for making new enemies."
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"He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage."
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"We must cultivate our own garden."
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"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."
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"Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them."
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"History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions."
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"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."
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