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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

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
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering
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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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
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
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
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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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
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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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Minds differ still more than faces.
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Deep Face Mask Mind One Liner
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
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
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 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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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
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
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Ignorance Intelligence Politics Stupidity Wisdom
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Condition Couple Doubt Ridiculous Uncomfortable
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking

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