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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.

Voltaire

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
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
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
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
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
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
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
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
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Deep Education Intelligence Man Silence Talk
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
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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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous

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