Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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