Minds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIREMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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