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

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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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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
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
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
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Excuse Fools One Liner Prejudice Reason
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing

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