In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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