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

Voltaire

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Guilty Innocence Justice Person Risk Save
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion

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