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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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
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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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
Let us cultivate our garden.
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Cultivate Garden Improvement One Liner
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Acquire Book Education Knowledge Reading
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Beware Cherish Fear Honesty Seek Truth
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
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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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Greatness Harm Hurt Misfortune Power
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Change Men One Liner Situation Time Truth
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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