Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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