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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

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
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Deep Defend Enemy Friendship God Hurt
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
Dare to think for yourself.
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Attitude Dare One Liner Self Love Self Respect Thinking
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Creation God Reciprical 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
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
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play
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

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