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.
VOLTAIREThe 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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Common sense is not so common.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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