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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

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
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Choose Goodness Happiness Health Inspirational Self Love
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.
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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
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
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Conquer Learning Politics Seduce Sex
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
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
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
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
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
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
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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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
Let us cultivate our garden.
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Cultivate Garden Improvement One Liner
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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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth
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
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
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
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
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking
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
Minds differ still more than faces.
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Deep Face Mask Mind One Liner

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