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

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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
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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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
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Alone Deep One Liner Proud Rare
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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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 dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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