Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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