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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
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
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Choose Goodness Happiness Health Inspirational Self Love
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
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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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
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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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
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
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Deep Defend Enemy Friendship God Hurt
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

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