If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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