It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIRECommon sense is not so common.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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