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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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
To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
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
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
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
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
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Alone Declutter Distance Happiness People Reason
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Happiness Healing Live Lonely One Liner Solitude
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
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise

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