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.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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