Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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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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