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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.

Voltaire

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Change Men One Liner Situation Time Truth
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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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Alone Declutter Distance Happiness People Reason
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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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Beware Cherish Fear Honesty Seek Truth
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Condition Couple Doubt Ridiculous Uncomfortable
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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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
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
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

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