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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
Denis Diderot
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Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire
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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Voltaire
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
Christiane Amanpour
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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.
Voltaire
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot
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We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
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And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
Rene Descartes
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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Voltaire
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
Rene Descartes
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
Voltaire
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
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One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.
Madame de La Fayette
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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Jessica Savitch
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It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.
Rene Descartes
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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
Voltaire
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I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
Rene Descartes
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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
Voltaire
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We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.
Chris Cuomo
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