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  1. Voltaire _ Candide

    Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.
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  2. Voltaire _ Candide

    All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
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  3. Voltaire _ Candide: or, Optimism

    I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
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  4. Voltaire _ Philosophical Dictionary

    Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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  5. Voltaire _ Candide

    What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
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  6. Voltaire _ Candide

    It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love."
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  7. Voltaire _ Candide: or, Optimism

    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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  8. Voltaire _ Candide

    But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
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  9. Voltaire _ Candide

    Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
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  10. Voltaire _ Candide

    Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable."
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  11. Voltaire _ Candide

    Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
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  12. Voltaire _ Candide

    Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
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