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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Voltaire

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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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
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
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
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 comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
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
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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