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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Change Men One Liner Situation Time Truth
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
Let us cultivate our garden.
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Cultivate Garden Improvement One Liner
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong

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