It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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