God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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