I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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