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Voltaire Quotes: The supper was like most Parisian suppers: silence…

The supper was like most Parisian suppers: silence at first, then a burst of unintelligible chatter, then witticisms that were mostly vapid, false rumors, bad reasonings, a little politics and a great deal of slander; they even spoke about new books.

("Candide")

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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This body, which was called and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was not Holy, nor Roman , nor an Empire.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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