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

Voltaire

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
Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Funny Human Nature Humour Money 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
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Madness Patience Success Thinking
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
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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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
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
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
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
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
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play

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