"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother."

Voltaire on superstition
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."

Voltaire on questions
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"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great."

Voltaire on pride
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on prejudice
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"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel."

Voltaire on passion
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"How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!"

Voltaire on nationalities and nationalism   

"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

Voltaire on multiculturalism
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

Wilde, Oscar on fiction
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on smile
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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