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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Voltaire

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
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
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
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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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Greatness Harm Hurt Misfortune Power
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Guilty Innocence Justice Person Risk Save
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
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
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
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
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
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

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