Voltaire

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

— Voltaire

Paradise is where I am

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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“His face was the true index of his mind.”

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History is the study of the world's crime

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“Les beaux esprits se rencontrent.”

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

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“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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“Wir sind nicht nur dafür verantwortlich was wir tun, sondern auch dafür, was wir nicht tun.”

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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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“Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her…

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world

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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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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as…

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Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

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“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,…

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“Is it true that they always laugh in Paris?” said Candide. “Yes,” said the Abbé, “but it means nothing, for they complain…

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists…

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between…

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure…

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into…

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“Why should you think it so strange that in some countries there are monkeys which insinuates themselves into the good graces of…

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of…

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at…

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“I already began to inspire the men with love. My breast began to take its right form, and such a breast! white,…

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“Ne obraćam se stoga više ljudima; obraćam se tebi, Bože svih bića, svih svjetova i svih vremena: ako je slabašnim stvorenjima, izgubljenim…

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“Do you think,” said Candide, “that mankind always massacred one another as they do now? Were they always guilty of lies, fraud,…

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“Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?" said Candide. "Yes," said Martin, "I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of…

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“He assembled at his house the most worthy men, and the most beautiful ladies of Babylon. He gave them delicious suppers, often…

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“Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy,…

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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,…

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