It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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