No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREIf 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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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