Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREDespite 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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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