War is the greatest of all crimes and yet there is no Aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.Voltaire
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry... But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.
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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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