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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Author object (89)
Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. - Author object (599)
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. - Author object (89)
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. - Author object (89)
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us - Author object (89)
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." (<em>Notebooks</em>) - Author object (89)
L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être. - Author object (89)
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Author object (89)
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. - Author object (89)
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. - Author object (89)
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste. - Author object (89)
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. - Author object (89)
Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them? - Author object (89)
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. - Author object (89)
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Author object (89)
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace - Author object (89)
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. - Author object (89)
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. - Author object (89)
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. - Author object (89)
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on... - Author object (89)