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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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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
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"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
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"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."
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"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life."
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"What you see is what suffices you."
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"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
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"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
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"Losing your job makes you come face to face with the greatest wealth."
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"If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero."
Freedom
"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."
Work
"Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal."
Wisdom
"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
Man
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Certainty
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
Man
"The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand."
Emotion
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
God
"Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause."
Luck
"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."
Knowledge
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