What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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