Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREIt 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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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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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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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