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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Alone Declutter Distance Happiness People Reason
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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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
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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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
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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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
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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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion

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