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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
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
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Gossip Importance Love Nonsence Occupation Talk
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
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
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Conquer Learning Politics Seduce Sex
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Minds differ still more than faces.
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Deep Face Mask Mind One Liner
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Family Man Mother In Law Sucess Surprise

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