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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
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
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Ignorance Intelligence Politics Stupidity Wisdom
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
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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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
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
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
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
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Funny Human Nature Humour Money Religion
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 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
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
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

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