Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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 forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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