Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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