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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.

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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
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
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
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
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
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
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
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
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
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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