Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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 know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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