The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIRELet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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