He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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 discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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