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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Deep Defend Enemy Friendship God Hurt
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
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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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Dead Honesty Live Owe Respect Truth
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
Minds differ still more than faces.
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Deep Face Mask Mind One Liner
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
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
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Condition Couple Doubt Ridiculous Uncomfortable
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
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

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