Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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