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.
VOLTAIREIf we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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