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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Voltaire

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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
Men argue. Nature acts.
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Sensual 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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
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
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
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
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
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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