Dare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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