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.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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