The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIREHe 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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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