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.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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 better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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