"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech."
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"Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor."
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"Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am."
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"Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself."
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"It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."
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"No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for."
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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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"There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them."
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"A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do."
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."
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"If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other."
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"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude."
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"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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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
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