God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Common sense is not so common.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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