In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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