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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
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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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
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
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
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Creation God Reciprical Religion
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain

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