Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREDespite 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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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