The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Our 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.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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