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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
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
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
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
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Gossip Importance Love Nonsence Occupation Talk
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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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
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
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 happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Happiness Healing Live Lonely One Liner Solitude
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Change Men One Liner Situation Time Truth
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
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Acquire Book Education Knowledge Reading
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Deep Defend Enemy Friendship God Hurt

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