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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Comfortable Enlightenment Friendship Reading Soul
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
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
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
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Greatness Harm Hurt Misfortune Power
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
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
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Creation God Reciprical Religion
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
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

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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