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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.

Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
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
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
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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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
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
Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
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
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue

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