Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREWe are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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