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"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."
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"You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!"
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"The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it."
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"This earth in which we are living is not our everlasting home."
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"Life is never a competition."
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"Don't predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don't judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!"
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"Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart."
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"If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door."
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"Every eye makes its own perception."
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"It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative."
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"There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
Government


"I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition."
Faith


"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
Nature


"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
Man


"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
Nature


"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."
Philosophy


"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Wisdom


"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
History


"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
Art


"Writing is the painting of the voice."
Art
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