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The 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.

Voltaire

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
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
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
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
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
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
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Ignorance Intelligence Politics Stupidity Wisdom
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
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
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
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
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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