No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREWe are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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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.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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