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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

Voltaire

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
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
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
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
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.
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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Guilty Innocence Justice Person Risk Save
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
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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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
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
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play
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
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

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