It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Common sense is not so common.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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