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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.
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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
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.
