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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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