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

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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Deep Enemy Goodness One Liner Perfection
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Dead Honesty Live Owe Respect Truth
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
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
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
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Black Lives Matter Comparison Dwell Each Other Peace Religion
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
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
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Condition Couple Doubt Ridiculous Uncomfortable
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

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