One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIREWhen a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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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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