The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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