Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREIf you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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