Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREOur wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREDare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIRECommon sense is not so common.
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