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...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
“To what end was this world formed?" said Candide. “To infuriate us,” replied Martin.
…a few acres of snow…
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
A witty saying proves nothing.
A woman can keep one secret—the secret of her age.
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
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