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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.