It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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