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

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
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
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Deep Defend Enemy Friendship God Hurt
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
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
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
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Condition Couple Doubt Ridiculous Uncomfortable
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
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Alone Deep One Liner Proud Rare

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

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