Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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