God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREDespite 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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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