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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Voltaire

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
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
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Ignorance Intelligence Politics Stupidity Wisdom
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
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Alone Declutter Distance Happiness People Reason
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
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
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
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
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature

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