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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Funny Human Nature Humour Money Religion
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
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
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
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
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
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
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
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
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Gossip Importance Love Nonsence Occupation Talk
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle

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