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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Beware Cherish Fear Honesty Seek Truth
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
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
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
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
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
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
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 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

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