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.
VOLTAIREIt 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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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