May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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