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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Choose Goodness Happiness Health Inspirational Self Love
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
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
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
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
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
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God 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
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Condition Couple Doubt Ridiculous Uncomfortable
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

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