It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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 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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Common sense is not so common.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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