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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Voltaire

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
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
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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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
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
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
Minds differ still more than faces.
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Deep Face Mask Mind One Liner
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
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
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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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
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
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Comfortable Enlightenment Friendship Reading Soul

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