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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.

Voltaire

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Funny Human Nature Humour Money Religion
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Acquire Book Education Knowledge Reading
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Greatness Harm Hurt Misfortune Power
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
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
To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
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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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
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

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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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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