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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

    What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Voltaire _ Candide

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

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

    Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
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  10. Voltaire _ Candide

    You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.
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  11. Voltaire _ Candide

    When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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  12. Voltaire _ Candide

    In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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