Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
The superfluous is very necessary.
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
What a pessimist you are! exclaimed Candide.That is because I know what life is, said Martin.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us...
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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