It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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