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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.

Voltaire

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
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Deep Defend Enemy Friendship God Hurt
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Deep Education Intelligence Man Silence Talk
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
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
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
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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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
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
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Comfortable Enlightenment Friendship Reading Soul
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
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
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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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful

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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