One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIREIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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 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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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