The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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