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.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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