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“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbour, and such is the practice all over the world.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“we must cultivate our garden.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities—you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“This discourse gave rise to new reflections, and Martin especially concluded that man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best.”
Voltaire
,
“Candide”
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1759
“What! have you no monks who teach, who dispute, who govern, who cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion?”
Voltaire
,
“Candide”
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1759
“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by more envy, care, and uneasiness than are experienced by a besieged town.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three men, and of these three two were priests.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“Observe, that the nose has been formed to bear spectacles—thus we have spectacles.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of seeing Cunegonde once more.”
Voltaire
,
“Candide”
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1759
“Come! your presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.”
Voltaire
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“Candide”
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1759
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