It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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