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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Voltaire. L'ingenu. 1767, ch. 10.

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Voltaire. "Ingenuous." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Daniel A. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 10.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Voltaire. Letter to Francois-Joachim de Pierre. 23 Apr. 1761.

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Let us work without reasoning, it is the only way to make life endurable.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

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Common sense is not so common.

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Voltaire [published anonymously]. "Sens Commun [Common Sense]." Dictionnaire Philosophique Portatif. Geneva: Gabriel Grasset, 1764.

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Voltaire. A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, edited by Nicholas Cronk, translated by John Fletcher. Oxford University Press, 2011.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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Voltaire. Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert. 8 Feb. 1776.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

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Voltaire. "Superstition." Dictionnaire Philosophique. Vol. 8, Paris: Chez l'éditeur.

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Voltaire. "Superstition." Philosophical Dictionary, translated by Theodore Besterman. Penguin Classics, 1984.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Voltaire. La Bégueule, Conte Moral. Lausanne: Chez François Grasset et Comp, 1772.

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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Voltaire. "Sixieme Discours: Sur la Nature de l'Homme [Sixth Discourse: On the Nature of Man]." Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [Seven Discourses on Man]. 1738, no. 6.

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The agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Voltaire. Essai sur l'Histoire Generale et sur les Moeurs et l'Espri des Nations [An Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1756, ch. 70.

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