Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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