Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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