It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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