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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

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
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
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
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
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Alone Deep One Liner Proud Rare
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
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
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
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
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
Let us cultivate our garden.
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Cultivate Garden Improvement One Liner
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
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
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy

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