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I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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History is fables agreed upon.
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History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
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Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.
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God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
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Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
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Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)
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Change everything except your loves.
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As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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