Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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