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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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
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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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Conquer Learning Politics Seduce Sex
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
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Funny Human Nature Humour Money Religion
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
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
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
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
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Excuse Fools One Liner Prejudice Reason
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
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
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood

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