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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
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
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
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
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
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
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 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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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
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
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Acquire Book Education Knowledge Reading
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Funny Human Nature Humour Money Religion
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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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
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
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Excuse Fools One Liner Prejudice Reason
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner

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