Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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