Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRESensual 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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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