Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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