To hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIREIt is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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