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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

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
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking
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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
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
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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