Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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