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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Voltaire

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
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
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
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
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
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Beware Cherish Fear Honesty Seek Truth
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
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
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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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice

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