One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIREThe human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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 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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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