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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Alone Declutter Distance Happiness People Reason
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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
Let us cultivate our garden.
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Cultivate Garden Improvement One Liner
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
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
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
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
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Change Men One Liner Situation Time Truth
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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