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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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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
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
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
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
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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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Alone Deep One Liner Proud Rare
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
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
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle

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